Leadoff batter Austin Crowninshield went 3-for-5 with two doubles, three runs, and three runs batted in as Diman kept spunky Tri-County (0-3) winless.

Shane Raposo was 3-for-3 with a run. Kyle Campanelli was 3-for-4 with a couple of runs scored, and Kyle Cabral was 2-for-4 with a run and RBI.

The Bengals (3-1, 3-0 MAC) scored four runs in the first inning, one in the second, and three in the third in building an 8-4 against complete-game losing pitcher Nate Vargas, whose sidearm/submarine mix shut Diman down for the next couple of innings and produced a fair share of weak Diman swings throughout.

Diman pounded him in the first inning, building a 4-0 lead on five hits, including a leadoff double by Crowninshield and a sharp two-run double to the left corner by Christopher Marques.

After Tri-County struck with three runs in the top of the second, Diman's Brandon Affonso smacked a clutch two-out RBI single in the bottom of the inning after the Bengals were on the verge of wasting a first-and-third, none-out threat.

And after the Cougars got a run in the top of the third to again close within a run, Diman in the home half made it 8-4 with the three runs on four hits and a run-scoring wild pitch.

The score sit at 8-4 until Crowninshield belted a two-out two-run double in the sixth.

"As the game went on, (Lagos) got slower," Diman coach Flo Lima said. "Kids being kid, they're a little over-anxious, over-swinging. Good thing we got the runs early on because he kind of settled down a little bit."

Winning pitcher Ryan Laurianno, a junior, lasted four innings. Classmate Tyler Antaya finished, shutting the Cougars out until Lagos socked a solo home run with two outs in the seventh inning.

Tri-County made three errors, Diman 1.

"Just like everybody else, if we play clean baseball, we can compete," Lima said.